White House 'border czar' Tom Homan speaks during a daily briefing in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)
Homan argued that the lawmakers condemning the facility were noticeably absent when migrant deaths surged under the Biden administration.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data obtained by Fox News, 856 migrants died attempting to cross the southern border in fiscal year 2022 — the highest number ever recorded at the time.
"You didn't see them complaining about, under Biden administration, people being held in a border patrol parking lot surrounded by a fence and sweltering heat," Homan said. "They ignored four years of open borders, historic migrant deaths, historic Americans dying from fentanyl, historic numbers of women and children being sex trafficked."
TRUMP SAYS ONLY WAY OUT OF ‘ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ’ IS DEPORTATION
Workers install a permanent Alligator Alcatraz sign. The facility is within the Florida Everglades, 36 miles west of the central business district of Miami, in Collier County, Florida, on Thursday, July 3, 2025. (Getty Images)
Homan said lawmakers who failed to push for stronger border security remained "silent because they’re complicit" in the crises that unfolded under the Biden administration.
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"You can't have strong national security in this country if we don't have border security," Homan said. "We got to know who's coming in, what's coming, where it's coming from. But, instead, they kept silent and they kept feeding the American people."
Fox News' Emma Colton contributed to this report.
Bonny Chu is a Digital Production Assistant at Fox News Digital.
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